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US09385989B2 Method and apparatus for managing MAC address generation for virtualized environments
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用于管理虚拟化环境的MAC地址生成的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for managing MAC address generation for virtualized environments
- Patent Title (中): 用于管理虚拟化环境的MAC地址生成的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13552451Application Date: 2012-07-18
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Publication No.: US09385989B2Publication Date: 2016-07-05
- Inventor: Mukesh Baphna , Chi-Hsiang Su , Mallik Mahalingam , Jia Yu
- Applicant: Mukesh Baphna , Chi-Hsiang Su , Jia Yu
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/12
- IPC: H04L29/12
Abstract:
MAC addresses are flexibly and dynamically allocated across groups of devices that need MAC addresses. MAC address pools are defined for the groups by non-overlapping ranges of MAC addresses. The range of MAC addresses defined for any pool may be shrunk to support an expansion of the range of MAC addresses of another pool. The maximum number of universally-administered MAC addresses that can be defined for any MAC address pool is greater than 216, and the maximum number of locally-administered MAC addresses that can be defined for any MAC address pool is greater than 238.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140025821A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MAC ADDRESS GENERATION FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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